Getting Out of Your Head if You Had Narcissistic Parents

August 10, 2025·34 min·3 clips

Nikki explains how children of narcissistic parents learn to take on excessive responsibility to avoid being blamed for things like the weather.

Host Nikki Eisenhower, a life coach and psychotherapist, explores why children of narcissistic or emotionally immature parents struggle to feel calm in their bodies despite intellectual understanding. She argues that traditional mental health frameworks miss nuances of personality, explains how survival mechanisms lead to dissociation and overthinking, and offers practical breathwork exercises to help listeners reconnect with their bodies and shift from survival to thriving mode.

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A grounded body-based reset for people who know the theory but still feel stuck.

The episode stays with a simple tension: knowing safety in the abstract is one thing, feeling it in the body is another. Nikki Eisenhower, a life coach and psychotherapist, keeps the focus on that gap and on how survival mode can make calm feel far away.

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If your brain knows the answer but your body still won't calm down, start here.

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